ANSE-A-PITRES, Haiti. – The deadly cholera epidemic has now expanded into Haiti’s southeastern border regions of Haiti. The commune of Anse-a-Pitres, where BRA operates the only medical clinic in the area, has confirmed more than 30 cases, and, that at least 10 patients per day arrive at the medical facility seeking emergency assistance.

“The situation is critical because BRA’s clinic has now reached its full capacity and lacks the necessary supplies and personnel to respond to the urgent need of patients,” said Ulrick Gaillard, BRA’s CEO.

Gaillard added that the office of the mayor in Anse-a-Pitres plans to build a “Center for the Control of Cholera” in the commune – which BRA would use as an extention to its clinic to control the rapid spread of the disease and care for patients.

But funds are needed now and rapidly to hire more personnel; and purchase beds, medicines, IV supplies, clorox and other cholera-prevention supplies.

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SANTO DOMINGO, D.R. – The Dominican Senate has passed a resolution to formally recognize the humanitarian work of the Batey Relief Alliance (BRA) in the Dominican Republic. Since 1998, BRA worked in some of the country’s most marginalized communities serving the most vulnerable. “We are truely honored by this great gesture. We thank all involved from the bottom of my hearts,” said Ulrick Gaillard, BRA’s Founder and CEO. Click RESOLUCION SENADO to view letter.

New York, N.Y. – With a grant of $358,000 and technical assistance from the USAID’s Food for Peace Office, the Batey Relief Alliance, over a one-year period, is scheduled to distribute 93.8 metric tons of food to 12,800 food-insecure and vulnerable Haitians in the Southeast border regions of Haiti, including pregnant women, people living with HIV/AIDS, orphans/vulnerable children and internally-displaced people in the communes of Anse-a-Pitres, Thiotte and Grand Gosier. A similar program will also be implemented inside the Dominican Republic’s bateyes.